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KE2 Therm taking the refrigeration world by storm. I will be seeing mucho grande of this shortly and need to get studied up.

Originally Posted by 2sac

This is good advice

I like it.

Originally Posted by craig1

You could change the defrost schedules so that there are no defrosts in the problem cases during times when inspectors are likely to show up.

This is the one I've had the best results with. Make sure you get the coffin back on a defrost asap

You could change the defrost schedules so that there are no defrosts in the problem cases during times when inspectors are likely to show up.

Originally Posted by icemeister

To my knowledge, most government food safety regulations as they relate to retail frozen foods require the "internal" product temperature to be maintained at 0ºF and allow for periodic temperature rise to +10ºF for defrost. They also typically provide the methodology for measuring the "internal" temperature with a suitable probe to the center of suspect product sample.

State inspectors I have witnessed, although they often use infrared thermometers for general temperature checks, will usually resort to an "internal" probe test if something doesn't look right. Sometimes they need a little prod in that direction though.

In-house inspectors may well have different guidelines, including checking surface temperatures, but I think they need to understand that all we can do as technicians is to insure that the equipment is operating as designed for its purpose. If they require performance above and beyond that, then perhaps they need to discuss it with their store engineering people...unless, of course, you are also their engineer.

Yep well said.

To my knowledge, most government food safety regulations as they relate to retail frozen foods require the "internal" product temperature to be maintained at 0ºF and allow for periodic temperature rise to +10ºF for defrost. They also typically provide the methodology for measuring the "internal" temperature with a suitable probe to the center of suspect product sample.

State inspectors I have witnessed, although they often use infrared thermometers for general temperature checks, will usually resort to an "internal" probe test if something doesn't look right. Sometimes they need a little prod in that direction though.

In-house inspectors may well have different guidelines, including checking surface temperatures, but I think they need to understand that all we can do as technicians is to insure that the equipment is operating as designed for its purpose. If they require performance above and beyond that, then perhaps they need to discuss it with their store engineering people...unless, of course, you are also their engineer.

Originally Posted by Tommy knocker

Get a small bottle, fill it with glycol, put a thermometer through the lid and seal it, put bottle in the space, tell auditor that is the actual product temp. Take his little laser and smash it on the floor, give him the battery back cause its the only part that works, then walk away. Good luck.

This is good advice

BDOLIN do you have any information about proactive defrosts? I am interested in that
thanks

Get a small bottle, fill it with glycol, put a thermometer through the lid and seal it, put bottle in the space, tell auditor that is the actual product temp. Take his little laser and smash it on the floor, give him the battery back cause its the only part that works, then walk away. Good luck.

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the bad news is, more electric defrosts really bump air temp.


the good news is that proactive defrosts, heater management and sublimation can really reduce the temperature swing
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If the air temp is only high for a short time ("short" is relative) the product temp may be relatively stable, but it is easy to understand that the tighter the air temp is held, the tighter the product temp will be held

Originally Posted by jpsmith1cm

Tell the auditor to shove their IR thermometer up their backside.

Those things are the cause of more unnecessary service calls than I care to count.

If they really want an "explanation" give them a defrost schedule.

Ya. What he said.

Tell the auditor to shove their IR thermometer up their backside.

Those things are the cause of more unnecessary service calls than I care to count.

If they really want an "explanation" give them a defrost schedule.

Temperature rise on defrost

Hey guys, today I was at a major member warehouse store and the manager was asking me about product temperature rise during defrost. They were saying that they were getting alot of flac from corporate food safety auditors about product surface temp rising above food safety levels during defrost. I explained to them, especially with coffin cases, it can be nearly impossible to not have surface temps rise above safety levels for a short time. I showed them that the case specs called for a temp term of 50 degrees. They were cool with my response but were looking for more of an explanation for when the auditors come by. Does anybody have some advise, or articles on the subject?

Thanks